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Date:      Sat, 28 Mar 2015 19:22:27 +0100
From:      =?UTF-8?B?TWFudWVsIFN0w7xobg==?= <freebsdnewbie@freenet.de>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: remote kernel debugging
Message-ID:  <5516F163.9020206@freenet.de>
In-Reply-To: <AB5F8E72-7972-48B4-B07A-11AAF0B0BFF3@bsdimp.com>
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 11:11:52 -0600, Warner Losh wrote
>
>> On Mar 28, 2015, at 10:39 AM, Manuel Stühn <freebsdnewbie@freenet.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 02:10:54 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote
>>> The flags are documented in the uart manpage.
>>> 0x10 flag sets the console uart and 0x80 the gdb uart.
>>> 0x90 sets both.
>>> But it assumes /boot/device.hints to be used, which to my knowledge isn't
>>> true on the BBB.
>>> The console is setup via stdin/stdout in
>>> sys/boot/fdt/dts/arm/beaglebone.dts
>>> No idea how gdb or any of the other flags can be entered in the DTS files.
>>>
>>
>> After further investigation I found this flag for loader(8):
>>
>> set hw.uart.dbgport="mm:0x48022000,br:115200" # uart1 on BBB
>>
>> (more info in sys/dev/uart/uart_subr.c), which seems to be able to inform the debug-system about the desired uart-port. Unfortunately, when I'm setting this variable like shown above the systems stops right here:
>>
>> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
>> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
>> Using DTB provided by U-Boot at address 0x80000100.
>> Kernel entry at 0x80200100...
>> Kernel args: (null)
>> GDB: debug ports: uart
>>
>> No further output appears, it seems that the whole system stopped at this point.
>>
>> Any hints?
>
> Do you have DDB, KDB and GDB all enabled in the kernel?
>
> Warner
>

Yes, all three options are enabled in the kernel. uart1 is also enabled 
in the device-tree, pinmux setting seems to be correct; i was able to 
sucessfully connect to another node via uart1 with picocom.

--
Manuel




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